The records also show she was ordered to pay $796 in attorney fees by Washoe County Family Court Judge Frances Doherty in August for demanding more information from Gibbons on why he wants a divorce. Doherty said Nevada is a no-fault divorce state and Dawn Gibbons' "demand for particulars is spurious and served no purpose."
The governor cited "incompatibility" as his reason for the divorce. That was sufficient, according to the judge.
Dawn Gibbons' lawyer, Cal Dunlap, was authorized in a Feb. 23 order to depose Durant and Karrasch. Those depositions remain sealed.
In public court records, Dunlap said he wanted to know the times and places of the governor's "rendezvous with Karrasch." Among the questions Dunlap asked was whether Jim Gibbons had taken the women on trips and what gifts he had given them, dating to 1990.
Dunlap also requested phone records dating to 1990 to see how often the women spoke with Jim Gibbons.
In the unsealed records, Dawn Gibbons said her husband deliberately destroyed phone records from his Washington office in an attempt to hide long-distance calls he made to women. Jim Gibbons was a five-term congressman before running for governor in 2006.
Dawn Gibbons also refers to the governor making 867 text messages from a state cell phone to Karrasch in a six-week period shortly after becoming governor. Jim Gibbons told reporters that he was responding to Karrasch's messages, even at 2 a.m., and that she sometimes offered him advice on political matters.
Dunlap treated that comment with skepticism, asking who "can possibly believe his explanation that he was consulting with another man's wife in the wee hours of the night on matters of state?"
Who indeed?
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